x2go under KDE on F22

[Neal Becker]

Roderick Johnstone wrote:

> On 24/03/15 21:36, Luigi Toscano wrote:
>> Roderick Johnstone ha scritto:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I'm interested to find out whether the remote desktop system x2go
>>> (http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php), is going to work in F22 under KDE.
>>>
>>> x2go is documented to be incompatible with 'KDE 5'
>>> (http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:de-compat) but I notice that there
>>> are still seem to be (at least) parts of KDE 4 in F22.
>>
>> According the description, it seems incompatible with the desktop Plasma
>> 5. The parts you mention are the kdelibs4-based applications available in
>> F22, which don't have a Frameworks-based release.
>>
>> Ciao
>>
> 
> Luigi
> 
> Thanks for your comment.
> 
> Thats a pity. Our research group are long time KDE on Fedora users and
> its good if people can have the same desktop experience both on remote
> (x2go) and local (desktop) logins.
> 
> I did notice that the development/22/x86_64/os/Packages tree has the
> packages:
> kde-workspace-common-4.11.16-7.fc22.noarch.rpm
> kde-workspace-devel-4.11.16-7.fc22.x86_64.rpm
> 
> and had hoped that there might there be some legacy kde4 desktop support.
> 
> On closer examination now I see that the common package only contains a
> few text files and there is no kde-workspace package as such.
> 
> Oh well, I guess there is always F21 to keep us going for a few more
> months. From what I read on the x2go lists (IIRC) there will be a big
> project to update the X11 server in x2go to something modern which will
> support KDE 5 but there is no timescale for that as of now.
> 
> Roderick

Oh that's unfortunate - I really depend on x2go.  There are alternatives, 
but not nearly as nice.

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